We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.
Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.
If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.
Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.
Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community; it is the only society in which the future, the needs for tomorrow, are entirely left to an automatic system.
Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth.